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they may not have oskar, but from seeing their bios personally for the board, they dont need him, their bios is better than anything oskar has done (more options etc) and if you have a bios related issue, for christs sake email their tech support, thats what its there for :brick: :fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by Afterburner
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Originally Posted by Ket
Seems to be a :fact: too.Quote:
Originally Posted by G-Man
I have no qualms wat-so-eva with Sapphire and their Bioses.......my mobo is happily humming away @ 340 HTT :p:
Yeah, really not enthused about this board anymore given the lack of support for their products on their own forums, lack of availability in the US, and price. Probably will just save my money and wait for RD580 anyway as that actually looks like a product that offers something new outside of tweaking options; besides the ASRock is a great board even for good type ocing given the right choice components.
why the heck isn't this board in the US? I couldn't wait so I picked up a an832, I guess I'll get the sapphire when/IF it comes then keep whichever is better.
The board can be found on ncix.com (for pre-order).
This board is pretty much outdated when RD580 is just around the corner or so Anandtech reported. If you have the A8N32, hold on to it until something even better comes out.
Yup, not to mention that there will probably be high end boards based on the design from companies other than Sapphire.Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
This board is an antique in the computer world and was basically vaporware.. SO bury the thread...
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Originally Posted by nn_step
It's just such a shame that such good hardware went to waste and didn't make any money. Being a bussiness man, I hate seeing things that could have been an immense success become instant failure. I guess it can be the "reference board" still. ppl get excited over the damn an832 and that board is not even close to being a grouper... oh well.
ATI claimed numerous times there wasn't any design or supply issues, yet the Sapphire was delayed beyong believe, a whole generation behind. Some of the unreleased boards look kinda crappy too. The asus model, you have to plug in a card in one of the empty PCIX slots if you are not using two cards, god forbid if you lose that card.
LOL so many ppl bagging Sapphire because the boards are in limited quantitiys and there are probs, obviously these ppl dont know how marketing /sales/manufacturing works. Give it a bit more time guys then see what happens, if you think its easy to make and release a new board or any product for that matter from scratch, Go do it yourself anf see how much is involved :)
I think what people are complaining about is how hyped up the saphire board was. You even had Grey Skull asking what people wanted, so right there, on this particular forum, you had a lot of exciting people. Not everyone is hiphop for Nvidia chipsets.. I personally dont like going out to a pub and having my only choice of beer being Harp. Its kind of funny, the way ATI/Saphire implemented the 4.0V dimm setup, resolved DFIs 4V Dimm problem, hence why the DFI NF4 Expert came out. ATIs supply channel to manf's is what screwed this board up.. Theres always Halibut.
Yes true about the hype and then it died for some reason??
I have 2 of these boards coming this weekend , and to tell the truth im not that excited about it anymore :|
I bought myself an A8n32. Might as well wait for the next gen chipset. It can't possibly take more than a few months for it to come out since M2 is coming at the end of the 2nd qtr of 2006 or something. Unless RD580 gets changed to socket M2.
That would be the logical choise IMO :)Quote:
Originally Posted by situman
I have this board and I'm pretty happy with it. It can do at least 300 HTT.
I have a problem with my HDDs breaking down though. Any ideas on why that would be? Am I supposed to use som particular SATA-ports? I'm beginning to think that I've accidentally run to high LDT and thats what has destroyed the drives. Could there be another plausible reason? :confused:
What HT multiplier are you using? If you're using x3 then there shoudln't be any problems with the HT bus. If you are using x4 then you might have problems depending on a few factors.
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Originally Posted by nilsrock
Have that board also running at 9x300HTT with my 3000+ venice running raid 0 on sil 3112 1 and 2 tryed alos 3 and 4 no problem sil 3132 sata 2 also works with no problem
I hope I'm right thinking that the "LDT Bus Frequency" is the HT miltiplier in disguise. (I have read it in this very thread.) I have it set to 600 wich I'm pretty shure mens HT multi = 3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grayskull
What about the Upstream and Downstream LDT Bus Widht, should I leave it at 16 bit?
On my first HHD destruction session, when I crashed two Maxtor DM9 PATA I had the LDT Bus at 800 and I might have been stupid enough to combine that with 300+ HT.
But now my replacement HDD, a brand new WD 320GB SATA, died on me. And this time it's even more serious. The Maxtors could be revived by formating, but the WD is just dead. WD diagnostic tool says it's worse than worst case scenario.
Through all of these adventures the system disk has been a WD raptor 36GB and it's still working away flawlessly.
Im caught in 2 minds now, been waiting for the Grouper board for so damn long now, was going to buy it in a few weeks time, but seeing the RD580 just around the corner with better features and according to anandtech no 1000HTT limit.
However, going on what happened to Grouper, if i wait for the RD580 im worried that it will be so late that M2 will be upon us and i cant afford that big an upgrade but dont want to upgrade to stuff that is already outdated.
I think im going to wait, though i was really looking forward to messing around with my system this holiday. :(
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It is here at Eggy in case you missed it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813154006
I wonder if the the newer model with the 580SB will have 3 x PCI instead of just the 2 and that huge unused space at the bottom of the board :rolleyes: